
E13 – The Defense Budget: too much or too little?
The Merge
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The Importance of Small Business Technology Transfer in the Defense Budget
About 20 percent of the pentagons budget is spent on buying stuff. The navy has one, uh, but it's a shipwreck And as opposed to train wreck Their fleet goal was 355. It's varied anywhere from 305 50 in the past 24 months,. But the reality is they have about 300 ships now Uh, they're about half wave to retirement and really need to rebuild their infrastructure. They can't put the ships through a dry dock for three or four years without them falling apart. So what do you think? Share your thoughts with us at CNN iReport.
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